Tangerine Dream - Dream Sequence: Best Of Tangerine Dream

Double CD Retrospect Feat Tracks from 13 Albums Recorded for Virgin Records. Album Details

Stereo Review December 1986

Going through some old stuff, I ran across a review of this album that I'd saved 20+ years ago in the hope that I could find it (the CD) someday. Here's what Michael Smolen of Stereo Review magazine said about it in the December, 1986 issue:

"Covering every major phase of T. Dream's illustrious career, 'Dream Sequence' is a two-disc set of the group's finest work from 1974 to 1983. Such care and attention to digital remastering have rarely been equaled. From 'Phaedra' to 'The Dream Is Always the Same', synthesizers, drums and electric guitars have never sounded more alive than they do here. Disc Two of this set just may be the finest CD in existence."

This review was of the Virgin CDTD 1 release. Don't know if Amazon's offering is from the same batch.

April 5, 2007

a weird dream

They were spacy, new agey and electronically ambient long before 808:State, Devo, Hawkwind, Kraftwerk or William Orbit but this 2 CD career retrospective of Berlin's prolific Tangerine Dream is perfectly timed. In that 30 years, the Dream have had the greatest impact on the widest variety of music, most notably in the sample-happy ambient and new age electronica scene of the `90s. Though the band went through three dozen different lineups and four distinct stages of development, the experimental and minimalist period of the late `60s and early `70s is given short thrift here chiefly because they didn't sign with Virgin until mid' 70s. Fortunately, most of these instrumentals are also from the band's most influential period - the Moogy moods and stark sequencer trance styles of the mid-1970s and the more organic sound journeys of their final years with Virgin in the early `80s. Obviously, assembling a greatest hits collection of Tangerine Dream's relentless, trance-inducing barrage of multi-minute rhythm and sound nuggets tunes is no easy task; their albums often contained only one extended song per side of vinyl and that dilemma is prominent on the first disc. With fully hour and a bit of the band's mystic, swirling and elongated soundscapes, it contains much from their early work with the label, including the title track from 1974's milestone release Phaedra and a three minute excerpt from the 17 minute Rubycon Part One from 1975's Rubycon, though the inclusion of the complete 20 minute sound journey Ricochet Part Two a cut from the live Ricochet is laudable. The second disc sacrifices the truncated for the overstated, offering up complete atmospheric orchestral slabs from 1980's Tangram, 1982's Logos, the hard-to-find Cloudburst Flight from 1979 and a taste of their soundtrack work (Beach Scene from 1981's Thief ). What you won't find is anything from 1978's Cyclone, their much-hated vocal debut or the multitude of snore-inducing soundtracks from stinker flicks like The Keep, Firestarter, Flashpoint or Vision Quest. That's a good thing, leaving untarnished the notion that their best works remain masterpieces of aural sculpture often imitated but never duplicated and more popular now - whether rave-goers know it or not - than ever before. September 2, 2003

The best TD has to offer

This is the Tangerine Dream I like. Not too far fetched and disturbing like their very early efforts (Zeit, Alpha, etc.), and before they became commercial and bland producers of techno (berk!).

My first TD album had many songs from the Haslinger era (The Parc, Tyger and especially Underwater Sunlight). I loved their music best during long-distance drives. Then I discovered "Poland" which introduced me to a more remote style of music. Finally I took the plunge and bought Tangram, Exit and Dream Sequence. I am not especially fond of their early-70 music and I believe that with this album I have been exposed to just enough of it. I know a lot of people love their Phaedra and Rubycon albums, but I personnaly like music with a few more notes and melody (that's me...).

Anyway I have discovered TD's Schmoelling-Virgin era and I am very happy I did. I recommend this album to anyone who enjoys space-like music, like Jean-Michel Jarre but with more substance.

A bientôt!

Jean C. June 13, 2002

The Keep- more music, PLEASE!

What a way to start the new year. I've just found and order-
ed Tangerine Dream's "Dream Sequence," which contains music
from "The Keep." I've been looking for the entire sound-
track for over 10 years. They didn't make it. If anyone has
more info on the music from this excellent soundtrack,
and where I can purchase it, please e-mail me. January 1, 2002

OUTSTANDING!

I purchased this great double cd in 1986 as a French import and have never tired of listning to it! Disc one containes my favorite - "The Dream Is Always the Same" and "Ricochet Part Two". Disc two gets even better with "Force Majeure", "Love on a Real Train" (from the movie RISKY BUSINESS)and the incredable "Logos Part One (A&B)" and "Logos Part Two" ( from the movie THE KEEP)! This double CD will make your system sound GREAT, or perhaps indicate what new equipment you might need! Buy and enjoy! April 5, 2001

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